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06 Oct 2008, 9:25 pm

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Well now you know (what you previously strongly suspected). :wink:

I did not get a tank or pension with mine....not even a lousy t-shirt.

they were giving away TANKS? awwwww. . .I didn't get one either. I would live in it and plant flowers in the gun turrets, and when I melted down I would blow up stuff instead.

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06 Oct 2008, 10:21 pm

Congratulations...I go in for some kind of evaluation meeself tomorrow....
Hopefully I don't make a complete ass of myself. :oops:

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06 Oct 2008, 11:23 pm

Naaah, my parents went and paid all that money, and all I get is a lousy IEP.

Well... you *did* ask...

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06 Oct 2008, 11:47 pm

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Naaah, my parents went and paid all that money, and all I get is a lousy IEP.

Well... you *did* ask...

and I will ask again, what is an IEP?

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07 Oct 2008, 1:18 am

Sinsboldly wrote:

and I will ask again, what is an IEP?

Here's my answer on what an IEP is...
http://life-with-aspergers.blogspot.com/2008/06/all-important-individual-education-plan.html

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07 Oct 2008, 2:07 am

It feels a little weird, not that it hasn't sunk in yet, but It feels like It hasn't happened... It's quite weird.

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07 Oct 2008, 7:46 am

gbollard wrote:

Sinsboldly wrote:

and I will ask again, what is an IEP?

Here's my answer on what an IEP is...
http://life-with-aspergers.blogspot.com/2008/06/all-important-individual-education-plan.html

good gawd! what a wonderful thing! This is such a BENEFIT to you, I thought it was . . well I didn't realize it was a blessing!

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07 Oct 2008, 8:13 am

Second that Merle... Wouldn't have minded one of those at all, combined with self-understanding, I think your future is going to be 'brighter.'

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07 Oct 2008, 8:34 am

I doubt the "youngsters" with AS have it any easier today.

Not much has changed, as "normal" people still won't accept the odd and eccentric person who only talks about one thing; some find their [social] place with understanding "NTs", but the majority still won't have a social place. There may be an improvement in academic performance, but this has never been much of a problem for people with AS. There'll be better understanding at work [where applicable], but the social segregation will still be there.

Until "NTs" start seeing that people who're socially atypical aren't a threat to them, nothing will change.

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07 Oct 2008, 8:49 pm

Danielismyname wrote:

What'd you get with yours?

They threw a pension in with mine. (I was hoping for a tank.)

LOL! I wanted a bazooka. All I got was a lousy ex-husband and a t-shirt.

Congratulations, and welcome to the club!

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07 Oct 2008, 9:27 pm

Yep, and my parents, along with a pushy counselor, removed it last summer 'cause they didn't want it on my college transcript. *sigh*

Now I'm just the strange gal with the baseball cap and the nose in the book for the entire 8 hours of school.

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08 Oct 2008, 1:56 am

orngjce223 wrote:

lol

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08 Oct 2008, 9:23 am

Danielismyname wrote:

the NTs are not going to change you know. They don't have to, and frankly, they are hard wired into social expression and I don't know if they CAN change.

And I take exception with the idea that the 'youngsters' (your word, not mine) with AS have it 'no easier'. At least you can wave a piece of documented paper at them when they want to corporally punish you for being "willful, wayward or incorrigible". They won't confine you in an institution with truly mentally ill folks and drug or electroshock you into submission and 'normality.'
I would take shunning and disdain from NTs any day over those barbaric measures they did on the 'oldsters' in our group.

Just because you don't know anyone that had those 'treatments' applied vigorously to their undiagnosed AS person doesn't mean it didn't happen, Daniel. Sorry if your whinging about how the rest of the world has to change to accommodate us has me on edge this morning.

Merle

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